Psychedelic Saturday

The best day to trip, because it leaves you all day Sunday to get the fuzzies out before having to cope with the unenlightened on Monday.

I could go on and on about the influence of the following videoed group, but I'm buzzing out on the hard stuff at the moment; so I'll just link you to the oh-so-seminal Thirteenth Floor Elevators (do click the link) and present the closest thing to a radio hit they ever had: "You're Gonna Miss me.". Below that, I'll offer you an awesome treasure that can change your life.



I now offer up the best acid poetry ever written, the lyrics to "Slip Inside This House." Take them as the most awesome Tantric Yoga sermon ever delivered on record.



Janis Joplin was influenced by the Elevators' vocalist, Roky Ericson, and was considered to join the band. A couple of members of the Elevators migrated to Mother Earth, where another of the era's amazingly talented vocalists, Tracy Nelson, was singing numbers like her "Down So Low":



I irritated Tracy in 1977 when she thought I was interviewing her for her current efforts but all it seemed I wanted to ask her about was the Elevators. We've since made up.

I've got a lot more in this vein, but this is just the first Psychedelic Saturday. Stay tuned.